.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 212 153
Rank change year-on-year -132 -59 -39
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 306 762 1,040
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.70% 1.25% 2.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 4.55% 6.13% 8.07%
Number of salaries quoted 281 532 957
10th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £87,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,732 12,431 12,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.32% 20.38% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,658 7,471 10,570
10th Percentile £36,750 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £111,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,460
% change year-on-year +3.85% -0.70% +0.71%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 7 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +2 137 £80,000 +14.29% 210
North of England -75 69 £55,000 - 182
North West -28 42 £55,000 -4.35% 124
South East -87 39 £53,750 -2.27% 216
South West +22 27 £50,000 -17.70% 23
Yorkshire -34 21 £40,000 -20.00% 35
Midlands -47 16 £60,000 +30.79% 53
East of England -1 13 £60,000 +20.00% 35
West Midlands +4 11 £60,000 +33.33% 23
North East -4 6 £70,000 +64.71% 25
East Midlands -32 5 £60,000 +26.32% 29
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (4.90%) IIS
2 12 (3.92%) CMS
3 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (2.29%) Confluence
5 5 (1.63%) Umbraco
6 4 (1.31%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.33%) Kentico
Applications
1 3 (0.98%) S-PLUS
2 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Carpe Diem
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.33%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.33%) ION Anvil
1 1 (0.33%) Magento
1 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 213 (69.61%) Azure
2 93 (30.39%) AWS
3 48 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (11.44%) Serverless
5 34 (11.11%) GitHub
6 23 (7.52%) Power Platform
7 22 (7.19%) Azure Service Bus
8 21 (6.86%) Azure Functions
9 18 (5.88%) SaaS
10 15 (4.90%) GCP
10 15 (4.90%) Power Automate
11 13 (4.25%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 12 (3.92%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (3.59%) Azure App Service
14 10 (3.27%) Azure AKS
15 9 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.94%) PowerApps
16 7 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (1.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.96%) Internet
2 2 (0.65%) HTTP
2 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (35.29%) SQL Server
2 59 (19.28%) MongoDB
3 50 (16.34%) Azure SQL Database
4 26 (8.50%) Elasticsearch
5 25 (8.17%) NoSQL
6 16 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (4.58%) Power BI
8 13 (4.25%) MySQL
9 11 (3.59%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.94%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.94%) Redis
11 8 (2.61%) Data Hub
11 8 (2.61%) NonStop SQL
11 8 (2.61%) SQL CLR
12 7 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (1.31%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.33%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.33%) Event Store
15 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 52 (16.99%) Git
2 17 (5.56%) JIRA
3 11 (3.59%) Octopus Deploy
3 11 (3.59%) Visual Studio
4 10 (3.27%) GitLab
5 9 (2.94%) TeamCity
6 6 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.63%) NUnit
7 5 (1.63%) Postman
8 4 (1.31%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.31%) MSTest
8 4 (1.31%) SonarQube
8 4 (1.31%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.31%) Vite
9 3 (0.98%) CircleCI
9 3 (0.98%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.98%) JMeter
9 3 (0.98%) Selenium
10 1 (0.33%) Moq
10 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 53 (17.32%) Finance
2 50 (16.34%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.21%) Retail
4 16 (5.23%) Back Office
4 16 (5.23%) Law
5 13 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (3.59%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.59%) Legal
6 11 (3.59%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.27%) Advertising
8 7 (2.29%) Banking
8 7 (2.29%) Front Office
9 5 (1.63%) Automotive
10 4 (1.31%) Marketing
10 4 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.65%) Games
12 1 (0.33%) Electronics
12 1 (0.33%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 213 (69.61%) Developer
2 117 (38.24%) .NET Developer
3 53 (17.32%) Senior
4 45 (14.71%) Full-Stack Developer
5 44 (14.38%) Software Developer
6 41 (13.40%) C# Developer
7 34 (11.11%) Senior Developer
8 33 (10.78%) Software Engineer
9 28 (9.15%) Lead
10 24 (7.84%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
11 21 (6.86%) .NET Software Engineer
12 16 (5.23%) Lead Developer
12 16 (5.23%) Senior .NET Developer
13 14 (4.58%) C# .NET Developer
13 14 (4.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (4.25%) Senior C# Developer
15 12 (3.92%) React Developer
16 11 (3.59%) Azure Developer
16 11 (3.59%) C# Software Developer
16 11 (3.59%) Head of Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (100.00%) .NET
2 106 (34.64%) ASP.NET
3 105 (34.31%) React
4 103 (33.66%) AngularJS
5 95 (31.05%) .NET Framework
6 80 (26.14%) HTML
7 76 (24.84%) Entity Framework
8 75 (24.51%) RESTful
9 68 (22.22%) CSS
10 59 (19.28%) ASP.NET Web API
11 54 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC
12 48 (15.69%) Vue
13 42 (13.73%) HTML5
14 38 (12.42%) Node.js
15 35 (11.44%) Blazor
16 25 (8.17%) ASP.NET Core
16 25 (8.17%) REST
17 23 (7.52%) CSS3
18 19 (6.21%) LINQ
19 16 (5.23%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 17 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (4.25%) AI Agents
5 10 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.61%) Private Cloud
6 8 (2.61%) Product Ownership
6 8 (2.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 7 (2.29%) Digital TV
7 7 (2.29%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.63%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.98%) Derivative
10 3 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.65%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.65%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.65%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.65%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.27%) Windows
2 9 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (50.98%) Agile
2 137 (44.77%) Full-Stack Development
3 120 (39.22%) Microservices
4 108 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 93 (30.39%) DevOps
6 85 (27.78%) Software Engineering
7 75 (24.51%) MVC
8 59 (19.28%) Clean Code
9 52 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
9 52 (16.99%) Scrum
10 50 (16.34%) TDD
11 48 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 47 (15.36%) Containerisation
13 35 (11.44%) Mentoring
14 34 (11.11%) SDLC
15 32 (10.46%) Kanban
16 31 (10.13%) BDD
17 30 (9.80%) Unit Testing
18 27 (8.82%) AI
19 25 (8.17%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 275 (89.87%) C#
2 125 (40.85%) JavaScript
3 124 (40.52%) SQL
4 76 (24.84%) TypeScript
5 37 (12.09%) Python
6 13 (4.25%) Rust
7 7 (2.29%) Go
7 7 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.96%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.31%) Java
9 4 (1.31%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.98%) Erlang
10 3 (0.98%) PHP
11 2 (0.65%) Bicep
11 2 (0.65%) XAML
12 1 (0.33%) C
12 1 (0.33%) C++
12 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 35 (11.44%) Degree
2 17 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.29%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 6 (1.96%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.98%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
7 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.56%) QA
2 12 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.29%) WCAG
4 4 (1.31%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 74 (24.18%) Docker
2 8 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 23 (7.52%) Terraform
3 2 (0.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 109 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (2.61%) VMware
3 7 (2.29%) Facebook
3 7 (2.29%) YouTube
4 4 (1.31%) Databricks
4 4 (1.31%) Dynatrace
5 3 (0.98%) Google
5 3 (0.98%) Oracle
6 2 (0.65%) New Relic
6 2 (0.65%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.33%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.33%) Intapp
7 1 (0.33%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.33%) IONA
7 1 (0.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.33%) Okta
7 1 (0.33%) SAP
7 1 (0.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.33%) Xamarin